There has been no later intelligence received The Express of Saturday has the following terms from the town:
A gentlemen who has recently been within one mile of
Suffolk.
Informs us that the following well known citizens have been arrested by the
Yankee since the advance of our forces, and are now in jail:
Dr. R. H. Webb,
John R. Kilby,
Jos. B.
Wilson Norficet,
Wm. D. McClenny, Irija Lanston,
Elisha Everett.
Richard,
Mr. Hazar,
Robert M. Darden,
Mills H. Riddick, John of
Coubon H. E. Phillips,
H. L. Tynes Dr. Robert Tynes Henry Rawls,
Eppes.
The dwellings of the following persons, most of them very valuable, have been burnt by the enemy:
Sathenid E Fruder,
Nathaniel G. Norflect,
Richard F. Riddick, John D,
McClenny,
Geo,
R. Smith,
Thomas Crigge,
Francis H. Rawla.
Shells were thrown through several buildings without giving the any notice whatever among the residences thus served is the elegant of HcKim L
Esq.
In
George H. Smith was shot down while at morning to from her behind which a number of Yankee pickets had taken sheller.
She was carried into
Suffolk badly wounded, so far is unknown within our lines.
All
Johnson a well known free negro living near
Suffolk, has been hung by order of
Gen. Longstreet,
Johnson was quite active in extending aid to the invaders, and a targe quality of corn and bacon known to have been stolen by the
Yankees was found secreted at his house.
The
Bethlehem Church, a beautiful building about three miles from
Suffolk, has been shamefully desecrated.
The trees around have been cut down, the blinds of the building torn away, the glass broken, the seats and pulpit burnt, the gallery floors torn up and carried off, and a large space cut out of the middle of the floor of the audience room.
Here the vandals have placed dirt and built fires and cooked their meals.
On the walls of the Canterbury obscene pictures have been drawn, and obscene phrases, too indecent for repetition, are everywhere prominent.
